AFTER!!! I was actually JEALOUS!

We moved the bed under the window—I know this can be considered a faux pas–but I loved it there! We reused her two white curtains and draped them on her box springs for a bedskirt. It worked and it was free!

I sewed all the pillows from my fabric stash and scraps.

The curtain fabric (turquoise chenille herringbone), I picked up at Savers (thrift store) over the summer. It cost $1/yd and I had 18yds that I hadn’t found a use for yet—so I didn’t mind donating 6yds to the project.

We left the dresser alone and tied it in with hanging her husbands heirloom mirror from his grandma that we found in the basement. The picture on the wall also made the color work. We don’t like to be too matchy matchy anyhow!

Me and Amanda enjoying her new room! Laughing that we were able to pull this all off with only $120!

$40 for  headboard wood and primer, $20 for lamps and accessories, $30 for curtain rod and lamp shades from Ross, and $17 for silver circle mirror thing from Gordmans.

 Camille scored a free rug from her sister in law–her girls had spilled orange nail polish on it. So she was going to get rid of it. We figured part of it would be under the bed anyhow…and we’d try to get out what wasn’t.

A day or two after that–we headed to the thrift store with Amanda in tow! Here she is with her new lamps! She had never been to the thrift store before—I think she was nervous! After we got home, she found the original $49.99 price tags on the lamps that we paid $5 each for! She was starting to become a believer…maybe thrift stores aren’t that gross!

 We found some great accessories and only spent $20 including the two lamps!

One day Camille and I were finishing up our run and we were brainstorming a way to ditch that HUGE headboard and footboard. We saw an old pallet in the weeds and Camille jokingly said, “We can use that for Amanda’s headboard!”—-hmmm my brain started working and a plan formulated….which of course Camille made better—she had a bunch of perfect sized pallet things in her garage. This was the frame work for our new headboard!

After much contemplation on Amanda’s part–we finally talked Amanda into letting us paint her end tables gray. That honey wood WASN’T working with our vision.

Heber came and helped us with our “MAN WORK” on the headboard.

 I stained and painted all our 1x6x6 ft boards. My vision was horizontal stripes alternating dark wood and white. These boards are only about $4 each from Home Depot. We bought 7 boards for this queen headboard. 5 boards for the front, 1 for the top, and we cut 1 in half to cap the sides.

 Here it is in progress!

 My sister had given me this canvas awhile back and I wasn’t using it, Camille decided to use pallet boards and framed it and stained it Dark Walnut. Yes—Amanda thought we were funny— She wasn’t sure what to think!

• While Shelley and Camille were redoing Brooke’s bedroom I had made a comment that I always wanted to redo my bedroom. Well shelley and Camille were all over it. I like to call them Shamille. When Camille came and looked at my room I was skeptical, then Shelley came a bit later and she quietly walked through my house to see if we had anything that we could use. After she left I was a little more skeptical. Before I knew it Shamille and April were here with fabrics and moving the bedroom around. The good thing is I have seen there work and fully trusted what they were doing even though I might have asked a lot of questions like “how’s that going to work?” Or “really?” they would smile and say “just trust us”. I was worried about painting my end tables only because I have a hard time with change and I thought everything was supposed to be matchy, matchy. Well let me say they turned out FABULOUS! I mean I thought we were done when we added the curtains, rug, duvet and pillows. That was all amazing to me. I had the privilege of shopping with them and maybe I wasn’t so sure of some things but then I had never been to the thrift store either so who am I to say these girls don’t know what they’re doing?! We got some things done in my room and then they decided I needed to ditch the headboard. Since my husband didn’t take it down, shelley came for something and while she was here she took it down and we moved it out. She told me they were building our headboard and oh my gosh, it’s AMAZING! I absolutely love what they did and I keep telling them they need to do a reality tv show on it. My Husband is happy with the results and I look at things in my house a little different now wondering what I could change in every room so it’s not so matchy, matchy. It’s inspiring, the ideas these girls come up with! Also, the most fun I have ever had putting a room together (or watching) that I get to look at every day!

 Couch—BEFORE—it had seen better days….worn and dirty, but AWESOME lines and comfortable.

Couch—AFTER–we just used the vintage quilt on the inside back and a cream canvas everywhere else. I was able to get 4 pillows out of the quilt as well. I had to work around bleach spots and make sure the pattern was centered. They turned out great though!

She had the most amazing house full of yardsale finds. She goes to yardsales every Saturday—jealous!

I did 2.75″ pleat ruffle with 2″ between pleats with 1.5″ kickback. The canvas was pretty thick, so I couldn’t self line the pleat ruffle. I did a .75″ blind hem instead.

 Close up of quilt. The quilt gave it a great texture and character to a plain cream slipcover. She said, “It turned out better than what I was expecting!” YAY!!! Bringing things back to life and making them beautiful makes me so HAPPY…like really HAPPY!

 The lighting wasn’t the best today inside (cloudy and rainy), so I switched to my 50mm lens (close up lens that lets in more light) and was able to get some decent pics. Her house was too beautiful to not get good pics. I love her two new blue chairs with cane backs that she got for $10!

 Here is the wall opened up! LOVE IT! My dad came and looked in the attic and looked at our blueprints and determined that wall wasn’t load bearing—so we took it out!

SO much bigger and open and the kids can sit on the computer in the office instead of 10 kids standing around my bar.

 I paid my 13 yr old son to remove all the carpet from the stairs. Our plans are to do hard wood stairs with 6″ craftsman newell posts. I ordered new stair treads and risers from Stair-treads.com

Here’s my upcycled kitchen chandelier. I decided my cream one didn’t go anymore. I found the silver one at ReStore in Park City. I removed the glass shades and had Heber grind off the swirly parts down the center stem. I then put in clear light bulbs—LOVE IT! More industrial.